Summary:
ZIP code 92571 has two listed middle schools: Lakeside Middle, serving grades 7–8, and Val Verde Student Success Academy, serving grades 6–10. Together they enroll 1,103 students, but Lakeside accounts for 1,076 and the Academy for 27, so the area’s school profile is largely shaped by Lakeside. The most important finding is that Lakeside’s 2025–2026 proficiency was below California’s in ELA, math and science, while the Academy’s results are unavailable, so the supplied data cannot establish which school performs better academically.
Among reportable test results, Lakeside’s strongest subject relative to the state was ELA: 40% proficient, 9 percentage points below California. Its math result was the weakest, at 24% and 15 points below the state; science was 25%, 11 points below. The Academy stands out for a different concern: chronic absenteeism was 76%, compared with 16% at Lakeside, 20% in Val Verde Unified and 18% statewide. The Academy’s ELA, math and science results are suppressed, so its attendance figure should not be taken as evidence of its achievement relative to Lakeside.
Lakeside’s results improved most in science and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: science rose 12 points and math 6, while ELA was essentially unchanged. Its average gap to California across the three subjects narrowed by 4 points, though it remained below the state in each. SchoolDigger’s Lakeside ranking rose from the 26th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 37th in 2025–2026. For school context, the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 22.2 at Lakeside and 6.7 at the Academy. Both reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025 were high and close: 86% at Lakeside and 89% at the Academy, a 3-point difference; these are observations about the schools, not explanations of their results.
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